Posted by wolandscat on Dec 13, 2018; 6:23pm
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Controlling-format-of-inline-xrefs-without-xreflabel-tp6208p6649.html

I have the same problem. I have a front page block containing an xref to another file that contains the amendment history of the document.

The xrefs in the front page block is a row in a table:

|*Revision*: <<latest_issue>>
|*Date*: <<latest_issue_date>>

The source is the revision and date on the topmost entry in the amendment history, e.g.

|[[latest_issue]]1.0.0
|description blah blah
|jane smith
|[[latest_issue_date]]10 Jan 2017

The result I want in the HTML (or any output format) is:

Revision: 1.0.0       |Date: 10 Jan 2017

But instead I get:

Revision: [latest_issue]       |Date: [latest_issue_date]

with both of the xref labels being clickable through to the correct locations.

It appears there is no xreflabel defined for text that is not a heading or caption, and even overriding it with something like [[latest_issue,1.0.0]]1.0.0 doesn't work.

Anyone got a solution to this?